I think the originally propsed guidelines (by PatMo, ipnman, etc.) for a single hotel, 200 rooms, banquet hall for 350-500, on site restaurant with hot breakfast, hotel lounge/bar, ..... is pretty well established. Not saying we cannot discuss it, but there's a reason this has been used for years and is the basics of what we need for STAR. Changing that to spread out to many small motels means no banquet facility, and people spread out all over to various places for meals and socializing. Not to mention something like a Honda Demo team works better with one big place with everybody.
I've been to over 10 STARS in my 15+ years and virtually every one stuck to that arrangement, and we were not limited in where we went (Lexington twice but different hotels, Avon a few times at the Christie Lodge).
As for the roads, we need decent to good roads, and things to see and do, not the twistiest bit of tarmac around. I can ride twistier roads in SE Ohio on a day ride than we had at Stratton, or in Avon, but its the new places, the parks, monuments, and other things that add to the experience of a STAR and a true vacation somewhere new or different. I saw scenery out west I can never see in Ohio, and traveled through some very interesting places on the way to Stratton, and Fort Ticonderoga was really cool (wish I had another 3-4 hours there).
